Supervisory board

French Trade joined Sacem in 1987.
Full member (Sociétaire définitif) since 2000.

A publisher all his working life, learning the trade from Jean-Jacques Tilché and Jean Davoust, in 1990 Patrick Cassaigne founded the publishing house French Trade.
Before then he was employed by EMI and Warner, for which he set up the first structured service for license negotiation for advertising and cinema in France.
After leaving Warner Chapell in 1992, and in parallel with the development of his publishing catalogue, he worked as a consultant and advisor for the publishing strategy of French and foreign artists and advertising agencies such as Publicis and the L’Oréal group.

For over 20 years, Patrick Cassaigne has been the global driving force for the company French Trade.
A strong advocate for creators’ rights, he was elected to the Programmes Committee  and served as its President in 2013 and 2014.

Nowadays, his company French Trade operates in over 40 countries, collaborates with hundreds of composers, and continues to expand into the audio-visual, media and Internet markets.

– Member of the Board of Directors of Sacem on several occasions since 2004.
– Member of the Varieties Commission on several occasions.
– Officier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite (Officer of the National Order of Merit).
– Knight of the Legion of Honour
– Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy for his entire career.

“Elegant, refined, fragile, sophisticated, elusive, secretive, dreamy, romantic, dandy and even …. Stendhalian!” Much has been written about Alain Chamfort’s music to try to define, fathom, or pierce through the veil of mystery, this cloud of evanescence, that is the charm of the man and his music and that the best lyricists have expertly made use of to transform into songs, from Etienne Roda Gil to Serge Gainsbourg via Boris Bergman and especially Belgian singer Jacques Duvall. A mystery that, fortunately, remains unsolved, and so we must look for clues in the music, and only the music, which has always accompanied him to the sound of keyboards.

You could almost say that Alain Chamfort was born to write melodies, playing his first scales at the age of three, on the family piano, right alongside his older sister who gave him piano lessons. He enrolled in music school where he would soon be playing all kinds of music, including the sonatas of Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart. He already had a penchant for the romantic composers such as Schumann and Liszt. He entered formal competitions at the Salle Gaveau and the Schola Cantorum and won  the “Prix Nérini” several times.

In the 60’s, Alain Chamfort was a child of rock who grew up between the family “TSF-pick-up” (gramophone/radio sets) and the first “mono-stereo” singles … He formed his first band The Dreamer’s then was asked to play the organ in another group, the Shakers, and ended up playing with the Murator’s. This group played regularly at the Golf Drouot and La Locomotive and were known for their covers of songs by the Beatles and Rolling Stones.

It was in 1966, playing with Les Mod’s , that Alain Chamfort was to come to songwriting and record his first single. Meanwhile, he accompanied Jacques Dutronc, playing the organ for the recording of the song Les play boys and began to write songs for various other performers. This is also the period during which he toured with Jacques Dutronc, Herbert Leonard, Eric Charden, one-night stands, the hits of Dutronc (Les play-boys, Les cactus, J’aime les filles, etc.)

At Pathé, Alain Chamfort met the young Etienne Roda-Gil, with whom he produced a record with Locmariaquer and Les Favellas.

In 1970, he met Claude François who in turn offered him a recording contract. After Dans les ruisseaux, many titles would follow, such as L’amour en France, Signe de vie, signe d’amour, Le temps qui court, etc.

During this period Alain Chamfort composed many songs for Sylvie Vartan, Nicoletta, Hervé Vilard, Petula Clark, in collaboration with Evelyne Buggy, Claude François’ favourite songwriter. Paul Anka, hoping for another My Way, recorded one of their songs which, in the United States, became Do I love you and reached No.1 in “The Country Charts”. The same title would be recorded in French by Claude François, under the title Plus rien qu’une adresse en commun, with lyrics by Yves Dessca.

In early 1976, he decided to surprise everyone, changing course altogether and releasing what was a transitional, even breakaway, album entitled  Le mariage à l’essai. Few artists make such a successful 180 degree turn in their career, moreover at the height of success, with the declared intention of … finding a new audience!

For the next album, he decided to work with American musicians and asked Serge Gainsbourg to write all the songs on  Rock’n’rose. In 1979, Alain Chamfort wrote the album Poses, in collaboration with Gainsbourg, which would really launch him in his new direction. By one of these intriguing coincidences that punctuate the history of song, Alain Chamfort thought that the latest song written by Gainsbourg,  Adieu California , sounded too “disco” and asked him for new lyrics: this would become Manureva, which remains, to this day, Alain Chamfort’s biggest hit and which definitively launched his third career, following on from his “yé-yé” and “fleur bleue” periods.

In 1983, he recorded Secrets Glacés and produced Lio’s second album, Les brunes comptent pas pour des prunes. He composed for the duo A cause des garçons, and went into the studio to record his seventh album Tendres fièvres written with Jacques Duvall, Boris Bergman and a new kid on the block, Didier Golemanas, which would take him to another hit: Traces de toi. Jacques Duvall also wrote several songs for him, including La fièvre dans le sang, Le plus grand chapiteau, and L’amour est une bombe.

For the album Troubles, Alain Chamfort left for the United States where he decided to use new sounds. In the autumn of 1993, Neuf was released, which included the song L’ennemi dans la glace. That same year, he gave a series of concerts in Paris with Stieve Nieve (Bouffes du Nord, Opéra-Comique) and toured France. Alain Chamfort also became involved in the fight against AIDS with his albums Sol en si and Entre sourire et larmes.

From that moment on, Alain Chamfort became very selective and released more refined and very personal albums. He also composed for other singers and became more and more involved in the business side of Sacem, where he joined and sat on the Variety music Commitee. In 1997, he released the album Personne n’est parfait, certainly one of his purest, with a rare elegance and charm, tinged with tender irony and even self-deprecation with songs such as: Qu’est-ce que tu as fait de mes idées noires? Tombouctou, Les majorettes, La plainte du blessé léger, Plus douce sera la chute, etc. This was followed in 2000 by a compilation album called Ce n’est que moi.

In 2003, Alain Chamfort released a new album Le plaisir. This was followed by a long tour that ended in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris in 2005. This last concert was filmed for release as a DVD and a live CD:  Impromptu aux jardins du Luxembourg. Two years later, the video La belles yeux de Laure won the Victoire de la Musique award for best video clip of the year. In 2006, Alain Chamfort celebrated his 40-year career at Olympia. On the compilation album Ce qui reste c’est l’air…. you can find, or rediscover, all his recordings as well as a previously unreleased cover of La Décadanse. He has also given many acoustic concerts with pianist Thierry Eliez, one of which was dedicated to the sailors of the trawler Manureva , which disappeared in 2007. Another significant project based on an innovative idea was Chansons en trompe l’oeil, in which artists joined Alain Chamfort virtually through a play of screens.

In 2010, he released a new, self-produced album entitled Une vie Saint Laurent, written by Pierre-Dominique Burgaud and released as a book-record dedicated to the great French fashion designer. Alain Chamfort promoted it himself in a series of concerts in France.

In 2011 he was presented with a life-time achievement award by the Charles Cros Academy. The following year, he released an album of covers Elles et lui, performed live on stage during a special concert at the Grand Rex. Several young artists have sung duets with Alain Chamfort, including Vanessa Paradis, Keren Ann, Camellia Jordana, Jenifer, Elodie Frégé, and others. He also appeared in a film by Benjamin La Jarte, Les jeux des nuages et de la pluie.

Together with his favourite songwriter, Jacques Duvall, Alain Chamfort made the news again in 2015 and 2016 with an album released by Pias, an extensive tour of France and a triumphant concert at Olympia Hall, not to mention being cast in Olivier Jahan’s latest film Les Chateaux de sable.

In 2018, he released a new album Le désordre des chose , which was nominated for a Victoires de la musique award.

A magnificent career, crowned in 2015 by the Sacem Grand Prix for French song (creator-performer).

Programmes Committee: Chair (2017-2018), Secretary (2016-2017), Member (2015-2016).  Audiovisual Committee:  Member (2013-2014). Member of UNAC, SACD and UPAD .

Comité du coeur: Board member (2017-2018). SMACEM: Board member (2017-2018).

After graduating from the Irene Popard school, Goldstein entered the teaching profession in 1967 and taught dance for many years.

Dubbing/dialogue writer since 1986.

Dubbing work in 1985 under the motivating influence of Amélie Morin, Michel Jonasz, Alain Goldstein and many others.

Adaptation of around a hundred animated series, songs, credits, live TV films and animated films.

A few examples: Goldorak, Les Entrechats, Superman, Les Pierrafeu (The Flintstones), Inspector Gadget, Franklin, Robinson Crusoe, The Muppet Babies, Alvin and the Chipmunks, B. Daman, Calamity Jane, Les Mongolettes, l’Ancre du souvenir and others, for Canal+, TF1, France 2, France 5, M6, Fr 3- Gully etc.